Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere along the Ob river in central Siberia , slowly building strength for a 3,500-mile flight , wait perhaps 50 Siberian cranes . |
| 2 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 3 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 4 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |
| 5 | They 're er , obviously gathering information for a big push then |
| 6 | The programme had changed : a collie dog was now gambolling about , apparently seeking aid for a distressed shepherd . |
| 7 | Thus the signalman was prevented from inadvertently releasing signals for a second train to enter before the first was clear . |
| 8 | When he allowed his prime minister to make reassuring comments about France 's continuing role in Algeria or when he himself encouraged rumours that self-determination was just window-dressing for the UN , he was not merely deceiving people for the sake of his Algerian policy ; he was fulfilling what he regarded as one of the state 's sacred responsibilities : to keep the fabric of national unity intact . |
| 9 | I believe again that our members will support the call and in so doing call for a general election to dismiss this totally incompetent government ! |
| 10 | Although widely described as boat people , a large number of the January arrivals had made most of the journey to Hong Kong aboard Chinese buses , only boarding boats for the last leg of their journey . |
| 11 | The students in this respect were merely showing support for the official position and expressing their patriotism , but they went too far in their protest action . |
| 12 | Since one-day cricket does not count as first-class stuff — quite rightly , in the view of growling conservatives — there are no longer enough playing days for a man to pile up those 3,000 runs or those 200 wickets . |
| 13 | That might seem reasonable , except that in China it is quite normal for ailing politicians to be filmed for the evening television news on their sick beds , perhaps receiving wishes for a speedy recovery from solicitous friends . |
| 14 | His pledge to wait until after a new Danish referendum won over just enough wavering Tories for a Government victory in Wednesday 's Commons debate . |
| 15 | Mrs Oliver also said that since receiving her machine as a birthday present last year , she has become totally ‘ hooked ’ , is already producing garments for the family and ca n't think why she did n't buy a machine years ago . |
| 16 | He felt that if they could make travelling at night dangerous , the enemy would be forced to move in daylight , thus becoming targets for the RAF . |
| 17 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 18 | ‘ Although we 're already writing material for the new album . |
| 19 | DORJE WANGDU : a 33-year-old electrician from Lhasa , he received a three-year term of ‘ re-education through labour ’ , without charge or trial , in September 1991 , for peacefully expressing support for the Dalai Lama , Tibet 's Buddhist leader-in-exile , and for possessing ‘ reactionary ’ documents . |
| 20 | According to Reuter , he is known on Wall Street for his prowess as a cost-cutter and an asset-seller , a reputation that is likely to cause consternation among IBM employees already facing lay-offs for the first time in the company 's history . |
| 21 | In these circumstances , the benefits to the individual ( or firm ) outweigh the costs of detection , thus providing incentives for the use of inside information . |
| 22 | Scores from the RDLS also correlated with performance in the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ) and the Word Reading Test after age 3 years , thus providing support for the test 's predictive validity . |
| 23 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 24 | Three days later 100 paramilitary carabinieri were sent to the island , to join another 100 who were already providing protection for the 5,000 troops ( largely conscripts ) who since July 21 had been stationed there , ostensibly for training exercises . |
| 25 | Second , when prayer is seen as a conversation with a very dear friend , we begin to understand prayer as far , far more than just asking God for a hand-out . |
| 26 | The extending of the charges will only encourage cyclists to take their bikes by other means , thus losing revenue for the railways . |
| 27 | Since tandems etc are at present being carried , and there are no substantial proposed changes to the rolling stock , the ban can not be justified by space constraints.The extending of the charges will only encourage cyclists to take their bikes by other means , thus losing revenue for the railways . |
| 28 | Er so we wrote to the heads of the schools and they were quite willing to accommodate er us and then I found out that er Muslims are already taking assemblies for a few years . |
| 29 | Rather than investing in a filter , it may be better to use bottled water if you are just avoiding tap-water for a few weeks . |
| 30 | This joint venture with British Nuclear Fuels is already receiving orders for the fuel to be used in thermal reactors . ’ |